Story Line Online - Listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members - follow along with the text
Browser Books - "This website was created to allow beginning readers to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them. The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum." (from the website)
Into the Book - Excellent reading comprehension resource - Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. K-4
Children's Library.org has books in many languages, text that can be enlarged, and many can be used in many activities such as digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises.
Wacky Web Tales - create your own story by adding in the parts of speech
Poetry Foundation - free resource to find poetry by category, by name, by title, by author, or by first line. It's digital, attach a voice and it's now accessible!
Tar Heel Reader Here you’ll find a collection of easy-to-read books on a wide variety of topics. Each book is switch accessible and speech enabled. You may download the books as a slide show in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
AndersenFairyTales has folk and fairy tales with flash animation and narrations.
FreeReadingis an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.
Reading Rockets has videos, podcasts, interviews with author and much more.
Websites that I have found to promote literacy skills that promote comprehension: